Details

Subject(s)

• Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe [Browse]
• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Russia—Foreign relations—Soviet Union [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FCO28: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series) ; FCO28-2819. [More in this series]
• FCO28 : Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series) ; FCO28-2819

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1967-1975: Module 3
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the Soviet attitude to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The documents include an analysis of Soviet intentions towards the outcome of the conference -- reports on the conference in the Soviet media -- and Soviet press articles criticising the "opponents of détente" and discussing the "application of the Declaration of Principles to relations among the socialist community of states". Other documents in the file cover a speech at the conference delivered by the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev -- discussions with Soviet officials on the outcome of the conference -- the impact of the conference on American-Soviet relations -- the publication of the "final act" in the Soviet Union -- and the negative outcomes of the conference from a Soviet perspective. The file also includes two despatches covering negotiations with Soviet officials during Stage II of the conference, and Soviet "Westpolitik" in the aftermath of the talks.

Notes

• File date: 1975.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2005.
• File was closed until December 29, 2005, under the Public Records Act 1958.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module III.

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